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Old 05-08-2007, 07:26 PM   #31
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Totalitarian goverment shares some of the characteristics of organized religion, ergo?

Could you not also say that totalitarian governments share many of the characteristics of ALL governments, therefore all governments......
As I noted in my most recent post in response to creekster, neither religions nor communst/facscist governments share many attributes with democratic or republican forms of governments that are subject to something like the Bill of Rights guaranteeing certain basic liberties.
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